Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006

Implementation of Transitional Laws in Serbia 2006against Rade Bulatovic, the Director of BIA, and the Chief of his cabinetNikola Bajic 346 , Velimir Ilic — the Minister for Capital Investments 347 ,Dragan Jocic - the Minister of Interior 348 , Dragica Miovanovic — theCommissioner of the Ministry of Justice 349 , Nenad Cekic — the Manager ofRRA 350 , the Managers of JAT 351 and the “Elektrodistribucija” of Serbia 352 ,as well as the Presidents of the Municipalities of Mionica 353 , Trgoviste 354and Novi Pazar 355 . No verdicts were reached until November this year.Conclusions on the Implementation of the Law onFree Access to InformationOn the basis of the research on the implementation of the Law on freeaccess to information, the Initiative has reached the following conclusions:• The results of the research have shown that, of 378 organs ofpublic authorities, 167 of them, i.e. 44.18 per cent have obeyed theLaw on free access to information• Of 154 Municipalities and cities, 48 of them have made an accurateReport. Answers to the requested information were producedby 105 municipalities and cities, so that it cannot be positivelydetermined whether the other 49 municipalities have fulfilled theirlegal obligation. The Law on free access to information was fullyobeyed by 27 municipalities and cities in Serbia• Although the Government is obliged to obtain financial means forthe work of the Commissioner and his expert service, as well asto ensure the execution of the decisions and conclusions of theCommissioner, the results of the research have shown that theGovernment had not sufficiently fulfilled these obligations. Of 134decisions of the Commissioner by which access to information wasordered, 30 decisions have not been carried out. The Governmentdid not react in any of the 30 mentioned cases.• The Ministry of Culture is the most conspicuous example of not346 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on June 9 th , 2006347 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on November 1 st , 2006348 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on November 8 th , 2006349 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on May 3 rd , 2006350 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on June 15 th , 2006351 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on July 20 th , 2006352 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on July 20 th , 2006353 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on October 24 th , 2005354 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on October 24 th , 2005355 Request for starting a misdemeanor process was submitted on October 24 th , 200577